Where / why were you on the grass track?
I looked up this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouga_CM.170_MagisterLoved the autocycle / trike ice cream seller.
The Flavia Berlina is a rare sight - and that two tone interior rather lovely.
Your highlights?
David
David,
Tims the best man to know where we were, but we were on the way from Beaune to Chambery, we suddenly turned off through a vineyard and got some peculiar looks from someone working in the vineyard and we wondered where the heck we were going, but we turned off before we got to him up a concrete path where after a few hundred yards there was a tractor across the concrete path, but again we turned off just before him, this then became the dirt track to a lovely viewpoint.
The two of us in the Berlinas weren't worried about the ground clearance, but I think a few of the others were!
The Ice cream trike was a real treat, as being into old moped/motorbikes it was beautifuly restored and unexpected,
The Flavia Berlina belonged to Giovanni who was our Lancia man in Mondovi, he had arranged at lot of things for us while we were there including the 14 course blowout lunch, followed by the 8 course dinner in the evening, his flavia is in beautiful condition, as was the Flaminia PF that bleonged to a friend of Giovanni's who had joined us from Milan, the Appia was a local in Mondovi who went and brought his Appia out to show us.
The whole trip was one big highlight, a particularly satisfying moment for me was as we were heading off from the Reims circuit where on a downhill stretch, I caught the three 1600 HF's out and passed them doing about 80mph with a big grin on my face
made quite a change to be in front of them.
Brian
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